Suggestopedia is a teaching method developed in the 1970s by Bulgarian psychotherapist Georgi Lozanov. It aims to optimize learning through creating a relaxed environment where students feel confident and motivated. Key aspects include playing Baroque music, arranging furniture in a semicircle facing the board, using posters to aid peripheral learning, and limiting homework to rereading material. The goal is to utilize both short and long-term memory through lessons with emotional meaning that promote assimilation before analysis.

1. Suggestopedia
Michelle Rivera
Mariam Gomez
“Learning is a matter
of attitude, not
aptitude” Georgi
Lozanov

2. Origin
 This method was developed in the 1790’s and it was
created by a Bulgarian Psychotherapist Georgi
Lozanov and the term is derived from suggestion
and pedagogy.

3. Characteristics
 Four principles of suggestopedia:
 1. Be positive
 2. Short term and long term memory of the learner
 3.Give lessons with emotional meaning
 4.Assimilate before Analyze

4. Role of the teacher
 The teacher has to put the students in a state of
mind called “concentrative psychorelaxation”
 Use communicative activities.
 Motivate students.
 Show confidence.
 Always be organize.

5. feature Keys

6. Comfortable environment
 The classroom has to be different from the other
classrooms, they have to be organized with the
chairs in semicircle and facing a black or white board
in order to make the students to pay more attention
and get more relaxed.

7. The use of music
 In this method is necessary use Baroque music
because it goes 60 beats per minute and that is that
rhythm create a state of relax and is easier to
concentrate and memorize things.

8. Peripheral Learning
 Students learn not only from direct instructions but
also from indirect instructions, it’s important to use
around the class different kinds of material (posters,
flashcards) with information about the language or
rules.

9. Free errors
 It’s alright if students make some mistakes when
they are talking and they pronunciate some words
incorrectly.

10. Homework is limited
 The unique homework is reread the material they
use in classroom, once before they go to the bed
and once after waking up.

11. Objective
 The objective of this method is to create confidence
in the students when they are learning English or a
second language.

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